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A direct-to-video sequel, ''The Car: Road to Revenge'' was released in January 8, 2019. This one, set in a Cyberpunkish-future, focused on a district attorney who was viciously murdered coming back to life as the titular car. Ronny Cox cameoed.
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* HellIsThatNoise: The Car's truck-like horn, which blares every time it seems to be mocking its victims.
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* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The Car that ate Santa Ynez
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* AttackOfTheKillerWhatever: The This movie could just as easily have been titled ''The Car that ate That Killed Santa YnezYnez''.
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Enter [[TheHero Chief Deputy Wade Parent]] (James Brolin), who must find out who or what is driving the damn thing and how to stop it, and (hopefully) protect his kids, his girlfriend, and, well, ''everybody else'' from this motorized menace.
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Enter [[TheHero Chief Deputy Wade Parent]] (James Brolin), who must find out who or what is driving the damn thing and how to stop it, and (hopefully) hopefully protect his kids, his girlfriend, and, well, ''everybody else'' from this motorized menace.
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Enter [[TheHero Deputy Wade Parent,]] who must find out who's driving the damn thing, how to stop it, and hopefully protect his kids, girlfriend, and, well ''everybody else'' from this motorized menace.
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Enter [[TheHero Chief Deputy Wade Parent,]] Parent]] (James Brolin), who must find out who's who or what is driving the damn thing, thing and how to stop it, and hopefully (hopefully) protect his kids, his girlfriend, and, well well, ''everybody else'' from this motorized menace.
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Why do people never get this? *sigh*
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* CarFu: The Car is so adept at this that attempts to out-CarFu it fail utterly. Wade is GenreSavvy about this, and rather then try to take it out on a mere motorcycle, simply uses that to lure the Car into a trap.
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* CarFu: The Car is so adept at this that attempts to out-CarFu it fail utterly. Wade is GenreSavvy about this, and rather then than try to take it out on a mere motorcycle, simply uses that to lure the Car into a trap.
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** A relevant passage in more ways then one: Not only is the Car [[DemonicPossession possibly demonic]], but its appearances are often preceded by an ill wind, [[SpottingTheThread as noted by Lauren]] a bit too late.
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** A relevant passage in more ways then than one: Not only is the Car [[DemonicPossession possibly demonic]], but its appearances are often preceded by an ill wind, [[SpottingTheThread as noted by Lauren]] a bit too late.
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* GlassShatteringSound: When the Car is in Wade's garage, it starts to make so much noise that garage's windows shatter.
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* LoudOfWar: The Car's horn is extremely loud, and is variously used to intimidate victims and as a sort of BondOneLiner, coupled with the equally loud engine. At one point, [[WindowPain it gets so loud that it shatters some windows.]]
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* LoudOfWar: The Car's horn is extremely loud, and is variously used to intimidate victims and as a sort of BondOneLiner, coupled with the equally loud engine. At one point, [[WindowPain [[GlassShatteringSound it gets so loud that it shatters some windows.]]
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* WindowPain: When the Car is in Wade's garage, it starts to make so much noise that garage's windows shatter.
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moved to YMMV subpage as it's a subjective, Just For Fun wick
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The 1977 film ''The Car'' is exactly what would you get [[XMeetsY if you crossed]] ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' with ''Film/{{Duel}}'', minus the Creator/{{S|tevenSpielberg}}pielberg.
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The 1977 film ''The Car'' is exactly what would you get [[XMeetsY [[JustForFun/XMeetsY if you crossed]] ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' with ''Film/{{Duel}}'', minus the Creator/{{S|tevenSpielberg}}pielberg.
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* XMeetsY: ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' meets ''Film/{{Duel}}''.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: The end credits show the Car driving around New York, suggesting that it wasn't destroyed after all. Or that there's more than one car.
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* TheEndOrIsIt: The end credits show the Car driving around New York, Los Angeles, suggesting that it wasn't destroyed after all. Or that there's more than one car.
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* EvilLaugh: The Car simulates one with its horn, pressing it rhytmically whenever it drives away from its latest scen of crime.
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* EvilLaugh: The Car simulates one with its horn, pressing it rhytmically rhythmically whenever it drives away from its latest scen scene of the crime.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Shots fired at the Car either do nothing pr mysteriously change their courses to miss it. This is dismissed as bulletproof glass and foam-filled tires, but the reality is quite a bit worse.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Shots fired at the Car either do nothing pr or mysteriously change their courses to miss it. This is dismissed as bulletproof glass and foam-filled tires, but the reality is quite a bit worse.
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* CarMeetsHouse: The Car kills Lauren by driving through her house.
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* CarMeetsHouse: The Car kills Lauren [[spoiler:Lauren]] by driving through her house.house as she is talking to Wade on the phone.
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** Or maybe there's more than one car.
** Or maybe there's more than one car.
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* EvilLaugh: The Car simulates one with its horn.
* ExactEavesdropping: Wade's kids eavesdrop on him fooling around with Lauren.
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* EvilLaugh: The Car simulates one with its horn.
horn, pressing it rhytmically whenever it drives away from its latest scen of crime.
* ExactEavesdropping: During his introductory scene, Wade's kids eavesdrop on him fooling around with Lauren.
* ExactEavesdropping: During his introductory scene, Wade's kids eavesdrop on him fooling around with Lauren.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Shots fired at the Car mysteriously change their courses to miss it. This is dismissed as bulletproof glass and foam-filled tires, but the reality is quite a bit worse.
** They actually do hit it a few times. It's just that they don't do anything.
** They actually do hit it a few times. It's just that they don't do anything.
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* ImmuneToBullets: Shots fired at the Car either do nothing pr mysteriously change their courses to miss it. This is dismissed as bulletproof glass and foam-filled tires, but the reality is quite a bit worse.
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** They actually do hit it a few times. It's just that they don't do anything.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Amos, the local drunken lout who [[ChekhovsGun handles dynamite]].
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* {{Jerkass}}: Amos, the local wife-beating drunken lout who [[ChekhovsGun handles dynamite]].
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* LoudOfWar: The Car's horn is extremely loud, and is variously used to intimidate victims and as a sort of BondOneLiner, coupled with the equally loud engine. At one point, [[WindowPain it shatters some windows.]]
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* LoudOfWar: The Car's horn is extremely loud, and is variously used to intimidate victims and as a sort of BondOneLiner, coupled with the equally loud engine. At one point, [[WindowPain it gets so loud that it shatters some windows.]]
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* ParentalSubstitute: Luke was one to Pete when his father died.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Luke was one to Pete when after his father died.died, which is why Pete's death hits him so hard that he starts drinking again.
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* ScareTheDog: Before the Car crashes the parade, horses in it are shown to be scared.
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* ScareTheDog: Before the Car crashes the parade, parade rehearsal, the horses in that are part of it are shown to be scared.
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* ToTheTuneOf: The main theme by Leonard Rosenman is based on "Dies Irae".
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* ToTheTuneOf: The main theme by Leonard Rosenman is based on the Latin hymn "Dies Irae".
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never do find out what happened to Tattleman, the deputy on guard duty at the parade. He's seen wounded but alive when Margie runs to get his car, and he isn't counted among the dead officers that night, so we know he survived, but some update on his condition would've been nice.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never do find out what happened to Tattleman, the deputy on guard duty at the parade.parade rehearsal. He's seen wounded but alive when Margie runs to get his car, and he isn't counted among the dead officers that night, so we know he survived, but some update on his condition would've been nice.
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* ObviouslyEvil: The Car is big and matte black, with huge fenders, a low-cut roof, and windows tinted so dark it's impossible to see the interior. It also has no license plates or handles on it's doors. Virtually the only thing disturbing the overall image is it's shiny grill and over-sized chrome bumper- almost giving the thing an EvilGrin.
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* ObviouslyEvil: The Car is big and matte black, with huge fenders, a low-cut roof, and windows tinted so dark it's impossible to see the interior. It also has no license plates or handles on it's its doors. Virtually the only thing disturbing the overall image is it's its shiny grill and over-sized chrome bumper- bumper, almost giving the thing an EvilGrin.
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* GoodHurtsEvil: They don't realize it at the time, [[SeekingSanctuary but running into the cemetery is specifically what saved Lauren and the kids]]- the Car cannot enter the cemetery, as it is hallowed ground.
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* GoodHurtsEvil: They don't realize it at the time, [[SeekingSanctuary but running into the cemetery is specifically what saved Lauren and the kids]]- the kids]]--the Car cannot enter the cemetery, as it is hallowed ground.
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A car appears in the [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere fictional Utah town of Santa Ynez]]. But not just any car: It is a [[CoolCar heavily modified black 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III]], which proceeds to mercilessly [[VehicularAssault run down]] local citizens. The local police force is baffled by this, especially given sketchy claims from eyewitnesses that the car had no plates, and much more oddly, no driver...
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The 1977 film '''''The Car''''' ''The Car'' is exactly what would you get [[XMeetsY if you crossed]] ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' with ''Film/{{Duel}}'', minus the Creator/{{S|tevenSpielberg}}pielberg.
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* StockFootage: Footage from this movie would later be used in an episode of ''KnightRider'', where a different sort of evil automobile is sent plummeting over a cliff.
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* StockFootage: Footage from this movie would later be used in an episode of ''KnightRider'', ''Series/KnightRider'', where a different sort of evil automobile is sent plummeting over a cliff.
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* CoolOldGuy: Everett Peck, the sheriff of Santa Ynez and an old friend of Wade's father. [[spoiler:Wade has some big shoes to fill when Ev ends up as the Car's fourth victim.]]
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* CoolOldGuy: Everett Peck, the sheriff of Santa Ynez Thomas County and an old friend of Wade's father. [[spoiler:Wade has some big shoes to fill when Ev ends up as the Car's fourth victim.]]
* ShownTheirWork: Unlike most movies that inexplicably depict sheriff's departments as being town cops, the sheriff and deputies are [[ShownTheirWork accurately depicted]] as being a county department (Thomas County, according to their patches). It simply appears Santa Ynez is the county seat.
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* TownSheriff: Everett, then Wade. Wade's father was also a sheriff once. However the sheriff and deputies are [[ShownTheirWork accurately depicted]] as being a county department (Thomas County, according to their patches) as opposed to town cops. It simply appears Santa Ynez is the county seat.
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* TownSheriff: Everett, then Wade. Wade's father was also a sheriff once. However the sheriff and deputies are [[ShownTheirWork accurately depicted]] as being a county department (Thomas County, according to their patches) as opposed to town cops. It simply appears Santa Ynez is the county seat.
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* InfantImmortality: Played straight, but only just barely. The Car only didn't get at the kids because [[SeekingSanctuary they ran into the cemetery.]]
** Those poor young bicyclists at the opening of the film weren't so lucky...
** Those poor young bicyclists at the opening of the film weren't so lucky...
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* InfantImmortality: Played straight, but only just barely. The Car only didn't get at the kids because [[SeekingSanctuary they ran into the cemetery.]]
** Those poor young bicyclists at the opening of the film weren't so lucky...]] It does injure one kid's arm but he survives.
** Those poor young bicyclists at the opening of the film weren't so lucky...
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* {{Metaphorgotten}}: "You know what your father once said to me?" {{Beat}} "...I was gonna make it up anyhow."
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: We never do find out what happened to Tattleman, the deputy on guard duty at the parade. He's seen wounded but alive when Margie runs to get his car, and he isn't counted among the dead officers that night.
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* StockFootage: Footage from this movie would later be used in an episode of KnightRider, where a different sort of evil automobile is sent plummeting over a cliff.
* StuffBlowingUp: When it's clear that CarFu and [[ImmuneToBullets bullets won't work]], explosives are used to finally defeat The Car... and even that might not have been enough.
* StuffBlowingUp: When it's clear that CarFu and [[ImmuneToBullets bullets won't work]], explosives are used to finally defeat The Car... and even that might not have been enough.
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* StuffBlowingUp: When it's clear that CarFu and [[ImmuneToBullets bullets won't work]], explosives are used to finally defeatThe the Car... and even that might not have been enough.
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* ToyotaTripwire: When Wade attempts to go inside The Car, it knocks him out with its door.
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